Office of Parent Relations and Programs - Parent Union for School and Home

The Office of Parent Relations and Programs (PReP), representing the school administration, faculty and staff, and the Parents Union for School and Home (PUSH), representing parents of the Ateneo High School, have been established to complement their shared GOALS and respond to their common OBJECTIVES.  These goals and objectives are the following:

• To promote a Cooperative, Collaborative, Coordinated, and Mutually Supportive Relationship between Home and School, and

• To organize and implement a Program of Activities designed to Enhance the Parenting Competencies and Skills of Ateneo High School Parents

Working together in facilitating the attainment of these goals are the PREP Personnel (composed of the Director, the Assistant to the Director, and the office Support Staff) and the Class Parent Representatives of each section (Ateneo parents who have accepted the school’s invitation to represent the interests of their respective sections at their Grade Level Parents Council.

The officers of the Grade Level Council, chosen from among themselves, are: a Chair, a Vice-Chair, a Treasurer, and a Secretary.

All the Chairs and the Vice-Chairs of each Grade Level Council are ex-officio members of the JHS PUSH Executive Council, which oversees the policies, activities, needs, and concerns of the organization and the parents they represent.

1. Parent concerns of individual sections are brought by CPRs to the attention of the Grade Level Council for deliberation and action.

2. Concerns that affect general policy and decisions which affect the welfare and concerns of parents in other Grade Levels are brought to the attention of the Executive Council for deliberation and action.

3. The Grade Level and Executive Council Meetings are held at least once a month. The Director and Assistant to the Director are in attendance at these meetings. School officers, Program Heads, and other resource persons are invited to these meetings, as needed.

4. The exchange of ideas and opinions, the deliberation on mutual concerns, and the sense of community engendered in these meetings have generated ideas for organizing activities that have become part of the Parenting Enhancement Program of the Ateneo High School.

With the restrictions imposed upon us in the past years by the pandemic, we have adapted the FLEX mode of Online and On-Site Activities in PREP-PUSH, but the Goals and Objectives of the two parent-related organizations still remain constant and unchanged.

PREP-PUSH will continue to explore how to help parents enhance their parenting skills in this “New Normal”. The First Priority is how to help parents help their sons study and learn as the School slowly adjusts to the “New Normal” in consideration of the changing circumstances in our environment.  This will probably still be the main concern of parents for SY 2023-2024.  The Second Priority is how to help parents help the school in forming their sons into young men of character under these difficult times. They are BOTH of concern to parents but may have to play second fiddle to the Adapting Concerns of Parents Themselves as they adjust to their new Role as Parents accompanying their sons in this “New Norma Model” of Teaching, Learning, and Formation of the Young.

We hope that Parents will support and take advantage of the opportunity afforded by PUSH and PREP as their conduit for the kind of frank, open, and trusting communication we shall need more than ever, during this challenging time, and as we wait in hopeful expectation for the gains promised by the Fully On-Site  education for our young men of the Ateneo.